Bankia Asset Management nabs fund manager from Allianz Popular AM

Bankia Asset Management has expanded its employment schemes department with the appointment of Carlos de Andrés, Funds People reveals.

De Andrés joins Bankia AM from Allianz Popular AM, the joint venture formed by Allianz and Banco Popular, where he has been working as a multistrategy fund manager for over four years. He started his career as a consultant analyst at Front Query based in Madrid.

His appointment raises to three the number of hires Bankia Asset Management has made over the past year. In April, the firm appointed Eva Pérez and Miguel Antonio Benítez to the fund of funds team led by César Gil Cano, which is responsible for managing the firm's two ranges of profiled funds.

Both Pérez and Benítez started working alongside fund managers Jesús Borrás and Pablo Rodríguez.